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An Australian Marketplace Called RedBubble
Your introductory paragraph indicates that "A sense of humour and a wellspring of creative ideas is essential."
How is the humorous sense coming out, and might it be always easy or sometimes not so easy to maintain?
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/31/2024
Artificial Intelligence - a boost or a curse for modern artists
Johnny Lee Miller as Sherlock had a fascinating episode in the Elementary series about an A.I. computer suspected of murdering her creator.
Have you by chance seen "Bella" in the Elementary series?
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/31/2024
Adrienne von Speyr a life on the edge of heaven
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Might that be a compliment, a shortcoming or a statement of fact about the puritanism?
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/31/2024
Artificial Intelligence - a boost or a curse for modern artists
Thank you!
What would be a prompt for a hazel-eyed, intelligent, personable, pretty wizzleyite -- ;-D -- with long white-yellow hair snuggling with her adorable, black-patched, equally intelligent and personable and pretty, green-yellow-eyed, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/31/2024
An Australian Marketplace Called RedBubble
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It was most amusing reading -- "Snake here" -- about the tennis players and their nicknames.
Arthur Ashe write that he had to quickly associate the formal name with the nickname!
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/31/2024
Pilate
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Putting in the search term Himmis manuscript only brought up hummus recipes!
What else might I put in -- apart "Himmis manuscript" -- to access this information?
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/31/2024
Adrienne von Speyr a life on the edge of heaven
Tracing the cultural effects of ancestors on the present is hard. We discern traces of ancestral attitudes. For example, my son says there is a hint of puritanism in me. Ancestral attitudes?
frankbeswick, on 01/31/2024
Adrienne von Speyr a life on the edge of heaven
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Online sources give an interesting etymology to the Speyr component of von Speyr.
For example, English Wiktionary lists that etymology as from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”) via Latin sphēra, sphaera (“ball, globe, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/31/2024
Adrienne von Speyr a life on the edge of heaven
Please note, the spell checker is playing up.playing up it decided that when I wanted to write the words more than one it changed what I wrote to momentum. Why is this nuisance still operative?
frankbeswick, on 01/28/2024
Adrienne von Speyr a life on the edge of heaven
Well observed.
frankbeswick, on 01/28/2024
Adrienne von Speyr a life on the edge of heaven
Interesting. I see a parallel to the religious encounter of Saul/Paul.
blackspanielgallery, on 01/28/2024
The Granite Kingdom: a Cornish Journey
No one has spoken Cumbric for over a thousand years, so the only knowledge we have about it is from the counting systems still used by sheep farmers, of which there are several across Northern England. This indicates that there was a wide ...
frankbeswick, on 01/28/2024
The Granite Kingdom: a Cornish Journey
I don't think that there were very many dialects, certainly Cornishbwas not as dialectbdiverse as Welsh or Cumbric.
frankbeswick, on 01/28/2024
An Australian Marketplace Called RedBubble
"As someone who lives in Perth, but isn't from Perth, I find the ol' "WA = Wait Awhile" to be almost too accurate haha : Quoye from Redditt
Jo_Murphy, on 01/27/2024
Artificial Intelligence - a boost or a curse for modern artists
Derdriu, I am training my voice in an AI voice. I think once a reader is reading to me in my voice using my words, There is not much room for copyright violation. I stick to clay because it is hard to think I have pinched anything from any ...
Jo_Murphy, on 01/27/2024